By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features LONDON—The stars of “Thor: The Dark World” recently gathered here to promote the second installment of the fantasy adventure revolving around the Marvel comic book and ancient mythological legend. Returning as the god of Thunder is Aussie hunk Chris Hemsworth. [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic The heroically entertaining “Thor: The Dark World” touches so many genre bases with such finesse that it will please not only comic book, science fiction and fantasy fanboys but also anyone looking for some light comedy and a little roman [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Rachel McAdams is no stranger to time travel. That is, the Canadian actress has played characters that get mixed up with fellows who have a magical ability to visit the past. Though not once in three time-travel films she’s been in has McAdams played [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Concerned parents wondering how to give their surly teenage daughters an attitude adjustment may be interested to learn that all it takes is a few days in the country without adult supervision, some rolls in the hay with a cow whisperer and a nearby [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Matthew McConaughey discovered a side benefit to shedding 30 pounds to play a role as an AIDS patient for the movie “Dallas Buyers Club.” “They say we only use 10 percent or our brain so there’s a 90 percent well of reserve that we haven’t even [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson play a pair of turkeys that travel back to 1621 to try and prevent their species from becoming the main course in the annual Thanksgiving tradition in the animated comedy “Free Birds.” Both Texas natives, they came aboa [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has picked up all worldwide sales rights, excluding the Philippines, to the critically acclaimed Filipino drama “Transit,” it was announced Monday. The drama marks the debut of director Hannah Espia. The Taga [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Whatever you do, don’t call Harrison Ford, the actor who embodied Han Solo and Indiana Jones, an icon. “I don’t know what an icon does except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone’s attention,” he says in his low, gravelly voice. “I like [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Let me start with a disclaimer: I’ve known Cole Haddon, the creator and co-executive producer of the new NBC series “Dracula,” premiering at 10 p.m./9 Central Friday, Oct. 25, for many years. I sat with him at roundtables and press conferences at vari [...]